Magnetic resonance imaging in adult congenital heart disease. [Review]
Source
Journal of Thoracic Imaging. 9(4):219-29, 1994 Fall.
Abstract
Some patients with congenital cardiac anomalies develop their first
symptoms as adults, and many more will survive to adulthood with
congenital lesions that have been treated surgically. Magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) currently provides sufficient morphological information to
allow the anatomical diagnosis of congenital abnormalities involving the
heart and the great arteries. Newer MR techniques have also been developed
that provide functional information such as measurements of valve
gradients, stroke volumes, regurgitant volumes, and shunt volumes. Cardiac
evaluation utilizing MR techniques may soon replace cardiac
catheterization for the preoperative diagnosis of congenital heart disease
and its long-term follow-up. [References: 56]